A Practitioner’s Hunched Posture Miraculously Straightens

(Minghui.org) One day in March, I sat with several practitioners in our Fa-study group in a circle and got ready to send forth righteous thoughts as usual.

A practitioner named John (pseudonym) said, “We should all sit straight.” John then looked at another practitioner named Jane (pseudonym) and said, “Straighten your back.” I then turned to look at Jane who was sitting next to me. Indeed, she was sitting with her back hunched and her neck sticking forward. Her head, shoulders, and body formed an arc. When Jane heard John’s comments, she had no choice but to straighten her back a little.

No one brought up the topic of posture after we sent forth righteous thoughts. We studied the Fa and got ready to send forth righteous thoughts again. I inadvertently took a glance at Jane, and saw that she was sitting with her back and neck perfectly straight. Her posture looked natural and relaxed. My eyes met John’s and we smiled. Jane told us that she had been “propped up with sticks.”

Jane took up cultivation before the persecution began in 1999. She broke through a serious test of sickness karma due to her strong faith in Master Li (Falun Dafa’s founder) and Dafa, but she still has some trouble with her speech, and her hand and foot on one side of her body. Her home is where we make Falun Gong informational materials to give to people, as well as where we study the Fa together. Jane uses her time wisely to study the Fa, do the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts, print truth-clarification materials, and take care of her housework. Her home is clean and well organized. I believe that because she has cultivated her xinxing well, her family members have a good impression of Dafa and support her cultivation.

After we finished sending forth righteous thoughts, I asked Jane what she meant by being “propped up with sticks.” She told us that she saw two sticks come out from the bottom of her two ears and stretch to the sides of her waist, and another stick was propped horizontally at her abdomen level, connecting to the ends of the vertical sticks. She said that the three sticks, which were about one-inch thick and looked to have green with leaves on them, formed a support structure to prop her body up straight.

We all happily agreed that Master made a support for her to sit straight. Jane nodded with a smile on her face. We were filled with gratitude and felt that Master was with us and taking care of us! Several practitioners who used to have trouble sitting straight, including myself, straightened our backs.

Master has instructed us in The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection to keep the waist and neck upright, and to keep the body upright. However, we sometimes didn’t pay attention to our posture when studying the Fa or doing the exercises. When fellow practitioners reminded us, we corrected our posture for a while, but reverted to our poor posture shortly afterwards.

Through Jane’s experience, Master has enlightened us to correct our posture when sending forth righteous thoughts, studying and Fa and doing the meditation. All practitioners in our group felt that they improved together.